The first half of Sunday’s county Class D high school boys basketball championship game between Bridgehampton and St. Pius V of Melville — which the Bees ended up winning 53-42 — was more akin to football at times, with as many as three or four players splayed out on the floor grappling for possession.

The Hackers Hockey Club’s manager, Tim Garneau, who took the baton from one of the club’s founders, John Battle, six years ago, grew up with winter sports in suburban Minneapolis, and, at 59, remains active athletically here during January, February, and March.

The Hackers Hockey Club and the Hamptons First Responders squared off at the Buckskill Winter Club Sunday night and on the night of Feb. 26, with the Hackers prevailing 4-3 in the first one and the First Responders edging the Hackers 10-9 in Sunday night’s finale.